Fabric-printing machine.



No. 639,382; Patented Dec. I9, |899.

` H. M. HARLEY.

FABRIC-PRINTING MACHINE.

(Appiicacion med June 21, 189s.)

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STATES PATENT HENRY M. HARLEY, OF GLOUCESTER CITY, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO GEORGE A. HEYL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

FABRIC-PRINTING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 639,382, dated December 19, 1899.

Application filed .Tune 21,1898. Serial No. 684,040. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern: lshaft S, and the bevel-pinions T, whose shaft Be it known that I, HENRY M. HARLEY, a L has connected with it the beveled pinion U,

citizen of the United States, residing in Glouwhich meshes with a pinion on the shaft of cester City, in the county of Camden, State of the worm-wheel V, which is engaged by the' 55 New Jersey, have invented a new and useful worm W, it being evident that by operating Improvementin Calico or Fabric Printing Masaid worm motion is imparted to the shafts L chines, which improvement is' fully set forth and M, whereby the housings may be sepain the following specification and accompanyrated or brought closertogether, by which proing drawings. vision the rolls C and D may be'removed and 6o 1o My invention relates to improvements in substituted by others of different lengths, ac-

calico or other printing` machines; and it concording to requirements, it being also evident sists in providing the furnishing or color-apthat color boxes or troughs of different widths plying roll and the color box or trough theremay also be applied to the housings and the for with means for keeping the same at a low latter readily adjusted relatively to the sup- 65 temperature for purposes where the color reports of said boxes or troughs. The shafts quires to be applied in cold condition to the M and L also serve to steady the upper and fabric to be printed. lower ends of the housings in the motions and Figure l represents a front elevation of a brace the same in their adjustment. calico-printing machine embodying my inven- The furnishing roller or brush E is hollow, 7o

2o tion. Figs. 2 and 3 represent vertical secas are also its shafts X, which latter are tions of portions of the furnishing or colormounted on the walls of the color box or applying roll thereof and a color box or trough trough F, which Walls are also hollow or jackon an enlarged scale. Fig. irepresentsavereted, as at F. A suitable cooling fluid is tical section on line :r 0c, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 reprepassed through the jacketed trough, entering 7 5` s sents a section on line y y, Fig. 4, on a reduced through a pipe Y near the bottom and at one scale. Fig. 6 represents a side elevation of a side and leaving bya pipe Z near the top'and portion of one of the housings of the machine at the other side thereof, both of said pipes on the track or bed to which the same is movbeing situated at one end of the trough.

ably supported. The bottom of the jacket F2V is provided 8o 43c Similar letters of reference indicate correwith a longitudinal partition F2, extending sponding parts in the figures. between its ends and dividing the jacketinto Referring to the drawings, A designates tWo chambers. With an end of each the pipes f the bed or hase of the machine, which is of Y and Z, respectively, communicate, while the form of a track, from which rise the housthese chambers communicate only at the op- 85 ings B and on which they are laterally movposite ends. rIhis causes the cooling medium able, said housings forming the bearings for entering through pipe Y to pass to the oppothe printing-rolls C, the impression-roll D, site end ofonechamberand then backthro'ugh and the furnishing or color roll or brush E, the other chamber and outthrough the pipe Z, said housings also adjustably supporting the whereby the trough is subjected throughout 9o 4o color box or trough F, below the roll E, and to an even and equable cooling influence.

into which the latter dips. In the lower ends It will be seen that water or other fluid at of the housings B are threaded openings G, a sufficiently low temperature will be directed as nuts, in which are fitted the right and left into the roller E through either of its hollow screw-threaded portions J and K of the horijournals X and discharge through the oppo- 95 zontally-arranged shaft L. site journal, by which provision the roll or M designates a horizontally-arranged shaft brush E will be kept in cool condition. Simihaving right and left screw-threaded portions lar fluid may be admitted into the jacket F N and P, which are fitted in the threaded ears of the trough F, and thus keep the color in or nuts Q on the upper ends of the housings B. said trough in cool condition or at the low `roo 5o The shafts L and M are geared together by temperature desired.

means of the beveled pinions R, the vertical In the bottom of the jacket F is the partition F2, which prevents the direct escape of the cooling fluid from the inlet Y to the exit Z and causes the fluid to ll said jacket before reaching said exit.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In acalico or fabric printing machine, a furnishing roll or brush, a color-trough therefor, the same consisting of a longitudinallydivided jacketed trough, the divisions of said trough communicating at one end thereof, and inlet and outlet pipes communicating with the divisions of said trough at the other end thereof.

2. In a calico or fabric printing machine, a hollow furnishing-roll provided with hol-low journals formingports, whereby a cooling medium can be passed through said roll from end to end, a color-trough therefor, the same consisting of a longitudinally-divided jacketed trough, the divisions of said trough communicating at one end thereof, and inlet and outlet pipes communicating with the divisions ofsaid trough at the other endthereof; 3. In a calico or fabric printing machine, a furnishing roll or brush, a color-trough therefor, the same consisting of a jacketed trough having a longitudinal partition at its bottom, and inlet and outlet pipes communicating with the jacket at one end of said trough and on opposite sides of-said partition.

HENRY M. HARLEY. Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, WM. O. WIEDERSHEIM. 

